Hack to Activate Microsoft Office 2007 Evaluation Trial Version

Most suites or programs of Microsoft Office 2007 allows user to evaluate the product. The trial version of 2007 Microsoft Office system can be installed by using a 25-character trial product key available from Microsoft while you download the free Office software, and you can use the Microsoft Office 2007 suite or program with full functionality for 60 days.

You may have the Office 2007 CD and are able to install Office 2007 without entering product key. However, Office 2007 will work in reduced functionality mode, where it’s effectively just a viewer for Office documents. Beside, if you forget the trial product key, or don’t wish to register a Windows Live ID to get the trial key, here’s the trick to activate Office 2007, or more correctly, bypass the activation of Office 2007 60 days trial, and making the “trial” word disappear from the Office title at the top and suppress activation and trial expiry prompt.

Note that to use Microsoft Office 2007 beyond 60 days trial period, you need to purchase a valid license for it, available from Amazon or most computer retail store.

To use this hack to crack activation on Office 2007, you need to install Office 2007 without any serial number or product key. If you have installed Office 2007 with a product key or serial number, do the following to clean remove Office 2007 of product key:

  1. Close all Microsoft Office applications.
  2. Run Register Editor by clicking on Start -> Run, and then type “regedit” in the Open box and press Enter key.
  3. Navigate to the following registry key:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Registration

    Note that inside the registry key, there should be another subkey that resembles the following:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Registration\{90120000-0030-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE

    or

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Registration\{91120000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE

  4. If there is more than one registry entries or subkeys that reference Microsoft 12.0 registration, open up each subkey, and then identify the product by the ProductName value data until you locate the subkey for the product which you want to remove the existing product license key.

    For example:

    ProductName=Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007
    ProductName=Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007

  5. Once found the correct registry subkey, delete the following values:

    DigitalProductID
    ProductID

  6. Close Registry Editor.

Once Microsoft Office 2007 has been installed with no product key, proceed with the following steps:

  1. In Windows Explorer, brose to the following folder:

    C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller\Proof.en\

  2. Right click on Proof.XML file, select “Open With…” in the right click menu.
  3. In the “Open With” window, select Notepad to be used to open the XML file. In Vista, if you can’t see the Notepad option, simply double click the “Other Programs” to unhide it.
  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the Proof.XML to locate the following lines:

    </Feature> <Feature Id=”SetupXmlFiles” Cost=”1248″>
    <OptionRef Id=”AlwaysInstalled”/>
    </Feature>

  5. Change the AlwaysInsalled to neverInstalled so that the line looks like following:

    <OptionRef Id=”neverInstalled”/>

  6. Save the Proof.xml file. In Windows Vista, you may need to take ownership and grant full access permission to yourself before able to modify the file.
  7. You can now launch Microsoft Office 2007 application such as Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook and etc without prompting for activation.

As usual, as it’s a hack, and before you purchase a valid product key for it, you won’t be able to AND can’t access any updates or Microsoft Office Online.

Note: The hack may work for 60 days only. To make this hack fully working, try to delete additional file below, probably has to be deleted every two months:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\OFFICE\DATA\opa12.dat

Or,

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\OFFICE\DATA (for Windows 7 and Vista)

Disclaimer: This article is for educational and informational purpose only.

This entry was posted on Monday, May 21st, 2007 at 2:45 pm and is filed under Business. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

1,427 Responses to “Hack to Activate Microsoft Office 2007 Evaluation Trial Version”

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  1. andi
    December 5th, 2008 14:44
    725

    hey, it worked. you rock, thank you!!!

    female 31 yrs old

  2. dman
    December 5th, 2008 09:21
    724

    having the same problem as a few others. Done all the steps correctly but Im getting ‘this modification is not allowed because the selection is locked’ when I try and type anything in any of the office programmes. Any answers?

  3. mikkamakka
    December 5th, 2008 09:04
    723

    Thank You!!!!

    It is working

  4. Lee
    December 5th, 2008 04:57
    722

    IT SAYS THAT I CANNOT CREATE THE FILE..TO MAKE SURE THAT THE NAME AND STUFF IS CORRECT. HOW DO I GRANT OWNERSHIP AND ALLOW FULL PERMISSION TO DO THIS? ALL I NEED TO DO IS SAVE THE EDIT I MADE IN THE PROOF. PLEASE HELP!!!

  5. Dan
    December 5th, 2008 00:54
    721

    I meant outlook – :)

  6. DAN
    December 5th, 2008 00:53
    720

    hi,

    iv used this and it does work for word, excel, but unfortunately not for office – i am unable to send any emails, although i can receive.

    Any ideas how i can get around this?

    many thanks

  7. Joe
    December 5th, 2008 00:13
    719

    YES!!!! It worked. I’m a student and I can’t afford overpriced software, so I would like to take this opportunity and thank the author of this article. You rock..

  8. name
    December 3rd, 2008 19:05
    718

    File>New>Mail Message and other’s menu in Outlook 2007 doesn’t work on this trick!

  9. I'll help ya
    December 3rd, 2008 12:30
    717

    I did this and it worked, but a few things were different.
    I have Vista with the trial home & student version. When I first tried to clear my existing key, I couldnt find “Registration” under the 12.0 in regedit. Nor could I find “Office Setup Controller” under OFFICE12 when looking to edit the xml file in Windows Explorer.
    I found after further research that I have a x64 system. So instead of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Registration\{90120000-0030-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE
    you need to look under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Registration

    and then to edit the xml file you should look under C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller\Proof.en\
    instead of C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller\Proof.en\
    And I also had to change the permissions for the xml file because it wouldnt let me save it. To do that, right click on the xml file (before opening it with notepad) and choose “properties”, then the “security” tab. Click on “advanced” and then “owner”, then “edit” then click on the name of the person under “change owner to” then click apply or ok. Close out the “properties” window and then reopen the “properties” and click on the “security” tab. Now click on the user name you chose and click “edit”. Click on the user name you chose again and then mark all of the empty boxes under “allow” in the permissions for users box. Click apply or ok and your done. Now you can edit the xml file and save it according to the instructions above.
    Hope this helps some of ya!

  10. jamy015
    December 3rd, 2008 04:26
    716

    If you want a good office suite download openoffice.org. It doesnt come with the frustrating ribbon.

  11. Pall
    December 2nd, 2008 18:31
    715

    I manage to change the file to the “neverInstalled” thingy, thoug it still doesnt work… Is it because i have it on danish, where the folder is Proof.da?

  12. Manoj Pahari
    December 2nd, 2008 15:54
    714

    thank you yoon and sanci,
    it really worked.
    thanks very much and thanks to digital life

  13. alexz
    December 2nd, 2008 08:28
    713

    i installed it and did everything but now it say that the selection is locked and i cant uninstall microsoft office trial… what can i do to uninstall it.

  14. Dwain
    December 2nd, 2008 08:27
    712

    Do not do this. After 60 days all Microsoft Office programs will eventually freeze. It’s just a hack not a permanent hack. It just gets rid of the activation screen. I repeat do not do this

  15. hashire
    December 2nd, 2008 06:56
    711

    I’ve gone through everything and it’s still locked, which is very frustrating, considering I wanted to get some writing done today, and I have a paper due Wednesday that I can’t do now. Ffffff.

  16. andre
    December 2nd, 2008 06:51
    710

    parabens!!!! obrigado pela boa dica

  17. swaroop
    December 2nd, 2008 06:31
    709

    Dude

    you r a genius. I was tired searching the net for weeks but this ultimately works.

  18. joshua
    December 2nd, 2008 02:28
    708

    OMG IT WORKED!!!
    Thanks

  19. Scott
    December 2nd, 2008 01:30
    707

    thanks a lot man..took a minute to figure out how to give myself the permissions to save it but anyone with a bit of knowledge can figure it out.

  20. luis
    December 1st, 2008 15:52
    706

    i put my key product wat should i do now?

  21. SA
    December 1st, 2008 15:24
    705

    dude!!!
    thanks!

    you are brilliant
    seriously
    there are so many people who would be greedy with this kind of info and just keep it to themselves

    not you
    thanks again

  22. tout_est_kaka
    December 1st, 2008 12:24
    704

    I downloaded the MS Officce Enterprise 2007. Afer having installed, I had changed the XML file to the “Neverinstalled” as the above instruction. But I just can use the program for some days, now I can’t modify my document. The Office say: “the modification is not allowed because the selection is locked”. Tell me the reasons why,pls. Or help me how to get a full free version forever.

  23. Johnny RimJobb
    December 1st, 2008 09:05
    703

    Hey guys. To those having troubles saving the ‘proof’ file you have to change go into the ‘properties’ for the folder that holds that file and change the permissions. It is set by default to NOT allow you to change / modify. Just go into properties –> security and change the permissions so USERS (such as you) have full control. Then you can save the Proof.XML file!

    :)

    Fk you microsoft !

  24. JD
    December 1st, 2008 06:22
    702

    I’m not able to save the “Proof” file after changing one of the words that should allow me use office without a key. What do I need to do ?

  25. Greg
    December 1st, 2008 03:53
    701

    Yo, dude, you know what you are doing.

    Very smart guy whoever posted this.

    This worked!!

    I wounder where you got trained in computer science?

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